Chapter 17 The Stand-in Heroine's Counterattack 17

The girl in front of me has a pure and straightforward gaze, like a flame in winter, which never goes out.

The emperor thought for a few breaths, his eyes solemn.

Finally, he said, "If you can solve the snowstorm problem, I can consider you as the imperial teacher. However, you must keep your word and never interfere in government affairs. Otherwise, what I can give you, I can also take away!"

Ah Yan bowed and said, "I will not disappoint the Emperor!"

She really had no interest in government affairs. But once her position was consolidated, it was hard to say who would control whom!

She was never coerced!

The emperor waved his hand and asked someone to send her back.

…

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, the light in the study was still on.

Ever since A Yan entered the palace, Prime Minister Luo has been waiting in the study.

Judging from Eunuch Desheng's attitude, his second daughter has clearly caught the emperor's eye.

But during this period of time, she had clearly stayed in the mansion and rarely even stepped out of the courtyard. How did she summon the emperor?

Prime Minister Luo was puzzled, but there was only one thing that was certain, that is, he could no longer treat Luo Qingyan as indifferently as before!

Prime Minister Luo called the butler and sent all the rewards to A Yan's yard as if they were free.

Green Wall was so frightened that she was in a panic. When Ah Yan came back, she immediately came to greet him and said in a shocked tone, "Miss, the master sent a lot of good things over! From what I saw, many of them are very valuable!"

Just this small table is worth several hundred taels.

Even when the eldest daughter was still alive, it wasn't so luxurious!

A Yan glanced over the furnishings in the courtyard.

Green Wall had already put all the items away, so she didn't need to worry about it. "Since he gave it to you voluntarily, just keep it!"

Green Wall held the key to the storehouse and lowered her voice: "I will save it! These things will be the young lady's dowry in the future. I can't bear to return them!"

She had calculated that the things she sent this time could make up six loads of decent dowry. If the master was still so kind to the young lady in the future, maybe she could make up eighteen loads of dowry before the young lady got married!

The green wall suddenly looked somewhat beautiful.

Ah Yan endured for a while, but finally said truthfully: "I will never marry."

"What?!"

Green Wall was horrified.

Before he could express his opinion, Prime Minister Luo strode in from outside, "Nonsense! How can a girl not get married? Now that you have the emperor's favor, all the major families in the capital will look up to you in the future! Your father will personally choose a suitable husband for you!"

Luo Qingyan's status has risen, so naturally she has to find a young man from a wealthy family to be her match.

This will be more beneficial to the Prime Minister's Office!

Ah Yan glanced at Prime Minister Luo and said, "My marriage is decided by the Emperor. Even if you have chosen someone, what can you do if the Emperor doesn't agree?"

Prime Minister Luo was so angry that his face turned blue. "How dare you use the emperor to pressure me? Luo Qingyan, who gave you the courage?!"

Ah Yan fiddled with her fingers, "Who do you think you are? Do I need guts to suppress you? Prime Minister Luo really takes himself too seriously!"

She had tolerated him before because she didn't want him to jump out and cause trouble. She didn't want to distract herself from dealing with him!

Now that the outcome has been decided, she naturally has no more concerns.

So what if Prime Minister Luo jumps so high? Just push him down!

Prime Minister Luo's face turned pale and he shouted angrily: "Luo Qingyan, I am your father!"

Ah Yan looked indifferent: "So what?"

She doesn't want to acknowledge a father who is full of malice and exploitation towards his daughter!

Ah Yan yawned sleepily, "Prime Minister Luo, do you have anything else to do? If not, I'm going to take a break! The Emperor has given me a task, and I'll be busy tomorrow!"

Prime Minister Luo stared at A Yan with a cold look.

This daughter has grown up!

"Oh, I want to see what you can accomplish without the help of the Prime Minister's Office!"

After saying this, he angrily threw his sleeves and left.

A Yan was too lazy to argue with him, so she washed up and took a rest leisurely.

Early the next morning, the troops assigned from the palace arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

A Yan found an excuse that was convenient for him, and moved with Lu Qiang and a few trusted servants from the Prime Minister's Mansion to a house that he had bought long ago.

Prime Minister Luo wanted to stop it, but the guards came with the imperial edict.

He could only watch A Yan leave the Prime Minister's Mansion.

A Yan settled down in a house near the Cheng family's. On the first day of moving in, Cheng Qingning came with a group of sisters.

A Yan prepared scented tea and snacks, and the girls drank tea and talked at the same time.

Cheng Qingning took out a purse and put it on the small table. "This is the share from selling vegetables. There are 12,000 in total. I spent 5,000 on buying the house, so I have 7,000 left."

The only things at the table that could be sold were those she had made.

But Song Fuxue and the other two also took out a purse and said softly, "Ayan, although we didn't sell anything to the outside world, we received a lot of rewards from the palace and our families."

"Just follow Sister Cheng's share. I'll convert this profit and give you 20,000 taels!"

"Don't be polite to my sisters. Now that you have moved out, you will need money to take care of everything. These are all from my sisters' kindness!"

Three different purses were placed on the table.

A Yan smiled and stretched out her little hand, opened her purse, and took out all the banknotes inside.

"Ayan will naturally not be polite to my sisters. But I have settled everything now, and I will receive a reward from the emperor soon. I will have to trouble my sisters to help me exchange this silver for rice!"

She only took out two thousand taels and pushed the rest of the banknotes out.

Zhuang Yuran's eyes widened. "Ayan, are you crazy? Saving so much money will come in handy in the future! Besides, if you move out, Prime Minister Luo will definitely not prepare a dowry for you! You have to leave a way out for yourself!"

Ah Yan smiled and shook her head, "Sister Zhuang, I won't get married."

"What?"

Huang Anjuan was so shocked that she even spat out her tea.

Song Fuxue and Zhuang Yuran also looked incredulous.

Cheng Qingning glanced at A Yan for a few times and was the first to accept A Yan's decision. "Since the day you rejected the Sixth Prince at the banquet, you have made your plan, right?"

These steps may seem random, but in fact they are all inextricably linked.

The final result was that A Yan became the imperial teacher, remained unmarried for the rest of her life, and her status surpassed that of the Sixth Prince!

Including later, they helped A Yan to drive Qin Yu away. At that time, she thought that she was just venting her anger for A Yan, but now thinking about it carefully——

I'm afraid A Yan wanted Qin Yu to be angry and stop paying attention to her, so that she could secretly plan with them!

I thought she was a naive little white rabbit, but I didn't expect that A Yan was actually the most strategic one among them!

Cheng Qingning's eyes were complicated.